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You say you don't care who they are but you're the one who first claimed to know that, when you called them "an anonymous user who has never contributed to foss outside of a whiney bug report or two.". You seemed to think it very important. Moreover, it's not impossible for the user to have been impersonating a FOSS developer for a couple of years, but what do you think the probability of that is? What would they gain? It seems far more probable that they simply are the same person.
Noone called the developer a "petty bitch asshole" from what I saw, putting words in others' mouths doesn't seem to help the discussion.
I agree with your overall sentiment that we can sympathize with the dev, even if they're obviously not perfect themselves. FOSS is hard for everyone engaging with it.
It is a games console emulator project. Noone's livelihood or business hinges on this AFAIU, and there are alternative emulators for the PS. If anything I'd hope people - maintainers, contributors, users - would be more cool and relaxed about it. It's the kind of project I wish would give everyone involved more energy and experience for other endeavors in their lives. What's even the point if it's not fun?